What was life like in 1600 Venice?

Answer 1

VERY different from life now ! I know a little about the 1600's but I don't trust myself to be giving completley accurte info. I said all that to say: try going online to msn Encarta.com and researching your question there ! - Bethany

Venice was one of Europe's most powerful and wealthy sities, with a large overseas trade.

Answer 2

After the Italian turrmoil of the early 16th century, Venice entered a long and gradual period of decline. Losings its political will, Venice found the new role which it enjoyed ever since- as a place of pleasure and delight, Europe's most sparkling tourist attraction. The city has the world's first opera house, which opened in 1637.It also has the pageantry seen in Canaletto, the titillating tradition of masked women who feature in paintings by Longhi, the social comedy of the plays of Goldoni. Willaert's three main contributions to sacred polyphony in Italy-- the last two apparently made solely (aside from his activity as a teacher) through his motets, etc.-were (i) the establishment of Franco-Netherlandish technique as a part of the musical language of church music there; (2) the development of choral antiphony; and (3) the cultivation of a "modern" style emphasizing faultless declamation of the text. Later in the sixteenth century came stylistic developments that are now called the baroque. A family of artists in Bologna, the Carracci, set about reinvigorating the grand tradition of Italian painting. Their efforts to combine central-Italian skill in drawing with the lifelike warmth and coloristic richness of the Venetians led to a new synthesis of nature and the ideal. The revolutionary dramatic naturalism of the short-lived Caravaggio influenced the work of dozens of artists all over Europe. culture During the 16th century, Venice became one of the most important musical centers of Europe, marked by a characteristic style of composition (the Venetian school) and the development of the Venetian polychoral style under composers such as Adrian Willaert, who worked at San Marco. Venice was the early center of music printing; Ottaviano Petrucci began publishing music almost as soon as this technology was available, and his publishing enterprise helped to attract composers from all over Europe, especially from France and Flanders. By the end of the century, Venice was famous for the splendor of its music, as exemplified in the "colossal style" of Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli, which used multiple choruses and instrumental groups. Venice became the first and the biggest trading power in the world. That is, the world before the great expeditions during the fifteenth and the sixteenth century. Through trade the Venetians prospered and Venice rapidly accumulated wealth. Venetians merchants established monopolies and used the Crusades as a tool to increase their trading power. They forced the Crusaders to attack rival traders in Constantinople in exchange for transportation to the Arab Empire in the Middle East. At the beginning of the sixteenth century, the Portuguese arrived in the Indies and the Venetians had to face the loss of their monopoly of spices. However, the tendency to self-idolizing fed the urge to find a new alternative: art flourished as never before. At the same time that Venice had to face the end of its trading status, it reached its artistic pinnacle, both in architecture and painting During the sixteenth century, the manufacture of silk and woolen textiles developed rapidly in the Republic. Silk production, for instance, grew sixfold until it was almost as large an industry as it was in Florence. Venice exported silk and wool textiles, dyed by a special method, throughout Europe. Venetian glass was particularly famous. A special high quality type of glass and a unique range of colors were developed at the glassworks of Murano, near Venice. Chemical industries were also developed, producing sugar and soap, and the city was famous both for its metalwork and as a center of printing; Hebrew books were printed here and distributed throughout Europe. As a commercial center, Venice controlled trade on the Mediterranean Sea, and imported many products from Asia to Europe. Until the sixteenth century it owned a large merchant fleet and important shipyards. However, it later lost control of the Mediterranean Sea, including key ports such as those on Crete and Cyprus, to the Ottoman Turks. Culture After the discovery of a sea route to India and the Ottomans' rise to power in the Mediterranean Sea, Venice gradually began to lose its position as an international center of trade. It was still an important economic and cultural center in Europe, however, where people from different countries met and exchanged ideas and opinions. At the beginning of the sixteenth century, the Venetian government removed the ban on theatrical performances. Groups of street players began to perform in the houses of the nobles who were their patrons, and later began to charge admission. The theater became a profitable concern, and investors built halls for different groups. This encouraged not only the development of drama in Venice but also the development of the architecture of public buildings there and elsewhere, such as the Barberini Theater, a private theater in Rome, and the Pergola Theater, a commercial theater in Florence. The Sixteenth Century.. from a Christian Perspective In the sixteenth century there are a number of main power blocks : England enjoying an increase in power and prosperity after the previous century's civil wars; France ; the Italian states expecially Venice, Florence and the Papacy (Italy being the centre of Europes wealth in 1500); and the Hapsburg empire embracing under Charles the 5th ; Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, the new American possessions and variable amounts of Italy. France and the Empire are at war off and on throughout the period , mostly in Italy. One of the most important stringed instruments of the Renaissance, the lira da braccio was used primarily by courtly poet-musicians in Italy to accompany themselves while reciting poetry. The five strings over the fingerboard were played with a bow, while the two strings on the instrument's bass side were plucked by the player's left thumb. A Latin motto or saying is painted on the carved ribs of this lira da braccio and describes the playing of the instrument. It can be translated: "while the horse [referring to the horse-hair on the bow] crosses the sheep [referring to the strings, traditionally made of sheep gut] up and down, the wood [referring to the lira] returns a mellifluous sound; hail the playing hand.

Answer 3

It Was Like Romeo and Juliet.

Answer 4

That is what i'm trying to find

Answer 5

I believe it was very different